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“So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay… That’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder, making a noise that sounded almost like rage.
'What's up?' he asked.
'Nothing. Oh, nothing. Just...' She looked up at him. 'I thought I'd finally got rid of you.'
'I don't think you can.' he said”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell .Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“So they were pen pals now, Emma composing long, intense letters crammed with jokes and underlining, forced banter and barely concealed longing; two-thousand-word acts of love on air-mail paper. Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. In return, Dexter sent her postcards with insufficient postage: ‘Amsterdam is MAD’, ‘Barcelona INSANE’, ‘Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning.’ As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hidden meaning in ‘VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!!”
― David Nicholls

“These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“...if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of Confidence. Either that or a scented candle.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“…there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything”
― David Nicholls

“…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“You must do what you enjoy.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Work hard at . . . something.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama...”
― David Nicholls, One Day